Surely may has lost the plot?calling an election she didn't need to,then losing her majority,then going to jump into bed with the dup.after all the allegations thrown at corbyn being an ira sympathizer and this idiot is going in with the dup double standards much?

Surely may has lost the plot?calling an election she didn't need to,then losing her majority,then going to jump into bed with the dup.after all the allegations thrown at corbyn being an ira sympathizer and this idiot is going in with the dup double standards much?

Double standards has never bothered the Tories when it comes to NI.

They were vocal critics of Republican paramilitaries being supported and facilitated from Dublin yet a policy of collusion between the British military, RUC and security services and Loyalist paramilitaries was an open secret. There's suggestions the death toll runs into the hundreds.

PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years

Surely every time there's a vote that requires DUP support there's going to be scrutiny on the type of people needed by the tories to win the vote. Even with a favourable press it's going to pile the pressure on May. I can't see anything other than another election in the near future.

Surely every time there's a vote that requires DUP support there's going to be scrutiny on the type of people needed by the tories to win the vote. Even with a favourable press it's going to pile the pressure on May. I can't see anything other than another election in the near future.

I agree.

The longer the Tories collude with them, the worse their popularity will become.

They may decide to go for a minority government in the knowledge that another election is inevitable, but it would limit the damage if a DUP deal.

Máirtín Ó Muilleoir certainly isn't. SDLP and Alliance party members also expressing concern about James Brokenshire's ability to remain inpartial during talks to restore the assembly if the DUP strike a deal with the UK government.

Backward, nauseating ****wits. Aye let's not worry about the implications of Brexit for NI, the fact there's currently no agreement for the assembly at Stormont or health and education issues eh?

Let's prioritise allowing orangemen to march at Drumcree. FFS it annoys me on a daily basis that I live on the same island as those ignorant ****s. The scale of it and the reach they have is overwhelmingly depressing sometimes

Heard that they sre asking for soft brexit and a, wait for it, £1billion pound investment in NI.

To be fair to them (that's usually impossible) they're right to go in high. They've been handed an unbelievable opportunity to improve NI and I hope they do their best to get a good deal out of this awful situation. Quite what they'd consider the finer detail of what constitutes a good deal to be is a whole other matter of course.

And then there's the manner they'd want to spend that money... the mind boggles.

Anybody else hear the DUP MP Ian Paisley saying "the futures orange" on the BBC? Welcome to the future of UK politics.

Yep.

It's been happening for a while now, with, Ruth Davidson's, comments on Fratricidal conflict, unbecoming of a leader within the Scottish Parliament. The election of Orange order members to local councils, although small in number, is another sign.

Now we have the political wing of the UDA/UVF holding the WM minority gov over a barrel.

So newly elected DUP MP Emma Little Pengelly doesn't think there's any need to remove UVF flags from a mixed community housing development in South East Belfast. Of course the fact that her father Noel Little served time in jail for paramilitary gun running and she failed to distance herself from backing received from Loyalist paramilitaries during her campaign are entirely irrelevant to her opinion on these flags and she'd feel exactly the same if it were IRA or INLA flags being displayed...

I've noticed a lot more UVF flags in Bangor this year, they're absolutely everywhere. It's interesting that the PSNI say it's not their responsibility to take them down.

It's awful that people like Ms Little Pengelly have power in NI. It's absolutely ****ing frightening that they're being used to prop up the tory government in Westminster.

So newly elected DUP MP Emma Little Pengelly doesn't think there's any need to remove UVF flags from a mixed community housing development in South East Belfast. Of course the fact that her father Noel Little served time in jail for paramilitary gun running and she failed to distance herself from backing received from Loyalist paramilitaries during her campaign are entirely irrelevant to her opinion on these flags and she'd feel exactly the same if it were IRA or INLA flags being displayed...

I've noticed a lot more UVF flags in Bangor this year, they're absolutely everywhere. It's interesting that the PSNI say it's not their responsibility to take them down.

It's awful that people like Ms Little Pengelly have power in NI. It's absolutely ****ing frightening that they're being used to prop up the tory government in Westminster.

The thing that annoys me is the hypocrisy. Jeremy Corbyn was subjected to consistent accusations of being a friend of terrorists, but there's been no outcry so far in relation to Theresa May and her government. Why aren't we hearing the same moral outcry here, considering the history of some prominent DUP members, including MPs? Many of them have shared platform with Loyalist paramilitaries and refused to condemn their actions in the past. Corbyn was accused of refusing to condemn the IRA thirty years ago, yet we now have a situation where a party with a very murky past is actually enabling a government to survive. It's shameless hypocrisy from the right wing press.

The thing that annoys me is the hypocrisy. Jeremy Corbyn was subjected to consistent accusations of being a friend of terrorists, but there's been no outcry so far in relation to Theresa May and her government. Why aren't we hearing the same moral outcry here, considering the history of some prominent DUP members, including MPs? Many of them have shared platform with Loyalist paramilitaries and refused to condemn their actions in the past. Corbyn was accused of refusing to condemn the IRA thirty years ago, yet we now have a situation where a party with a very murky past is actually enabling a government to survive. It's shameless hypocrisy from the right wing press.

It's a question of removal to some extent. Corbyn was a step removed from violent republicanism in the same way that the DUP were a step removed from violent loyalism. The Tories are a further step away from the DUP.

And, to be fair there has been more disquiet over a Tory/DUP deal than I expected. Although I concede not anything like as much as there should be ...